


Defective

by xstarxchaserx



Category: Sherlock (TV)
Genre: Fluff, Johnlock - Freeform, M/M, Sherlock's POV, Smut
Language: English
Status: Completed
Published: 2013-10-13
Updated: 2013-10-13
Packaged: 2017-12-29 06:52:19
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Chapters: 1
Words: 5,549
Publisher: archiveofourown.org
Story URL: https://archiveofourown.org/works/1002284
Author URL: https://archiveofourown.org/users/xstarxchaserx/pseuds/xstarxchaserx
Summary: <blockquote class="userstuff">
              <p>"Love is a chemical defect found in the losing side." Mycroft made sure that Sherlock had learned that lesson early on in life. It must not have stuck as well as he had hoped if one insignificant ex-army doctor could destroy all that.</p>
            </blockquote>





	Defective

**Author's Note:**

> Alright, so it's past one in the morning, I started writing this while I was drinking some wine, and I'm not making any promises for how good it is. I'll probably look it over tomorrow and edit as I see fit. Okay? Good. 
> 
> Another slight warning here. I felt like being really mean to Mycroft. I apologize in advance, but I promise, it's not something I tend to do often. Don't hate me too much, yeah?
> 
> Also, you can find me on tumblr. xstarxchaserx.tumblr.com
> 
> Come find me :)

The night the first case ended and Mycroft showed up at the scene, I knew I was in trouble. After 30 some years (I had deleted the precise number), I was used to the initial intimidation of those who chose to associate with me. The kidnapping, the interrogation, the bribe- none of it was new.

(Someone turning down the bribe was, though. New, that is. While logically, I know that we could have certainly used the money, my chest always tightens in a not unpleasant way when I realize that John is constantly chasing me around London despite the fact that he is getting nothing other than an adrenaline high out of it.)

But Mycroft... he never really paid attention to my associates after that initial ~~confrontation~~ meeting. Truth was, no one really stayed around to warrant another meeting. Lestrade, Molly, Mrs. Hudson... That was it. I should have known John was different from the moment he stepped into 221B and decided to stay. I thought he'd be gone the first time he found body parts in the fridge.

Or when I stole his gun to put bullet holes in the wall.

Or when I almost got his date killed.

Or when there was a vest loaded with Semtex strapped to his chest.

(That thought always made my chest ache in a distinctly unpleasant way. Perhaps I should get it checked?)

The more I thought about it, the more it hurt. The bomb on the floor. John free. John safe. Tears. A moment of... something. Tears. Moriarty again. Red dots. Eye contact.

_"Yes, I'm here. Do it. End this. It's okay."_

John's silent insurances were enough for me to level his gun at the bomb. I could hear sirens from far off, outside the building. Not close enough. They would never get here in time. Oh well. John trusted me to pull the trigger, so I did.

I didn't realize that, as I started to depress the trigger, John was already moving. The first gunshot sounded, and it took me until the gun in my hand recoiled for me to realize that it hadn't come from me.

But then the bomb was going off and John was slamming into me and the water was soaking my clothes and pulling me deeper. The first breath of air was coated with residual chemicals and bliss. The second was more of a laugh. The walls were ready to crumble, dust covered my tongue, and I saw the charred remains of Moriarty and his damned Westwood and it was glorious.

"John! John, we did it. He's dead!"

But John didn't answer me. He always answered me, even when he was on dates with annoying blondes and when he was at work and even when he was mad at me. Always. Why on earth wouldn't he answer me then, when the world was so beautiful and clear and Moriarty was finally dead? I panicked. 

I hadn't panicked since that time I ended up in rehab for the last time, strung out on so much cocaine, I couldn't even access my mind palace. 

Then I saw him floating about a meter away from me, face down, blood blooming in the water surrounding him. I couldn't breathe. I couldn't move. I felt the foundations of my sanctuary starting to crack again, crack in all those places that John had come in and patched up and fixed and without him I wasn't sure it would keep standing.

I nearly threw up. 

Instead, I swam to him, flipped him over, pulled him to the edge of the pool. I managed to get him up and out and tore off the shirt he was wearing (I would buy him a new one, a new wardrobe, just please, please let him live!), and made a quick assessment of his wounds. Struck in the side, a glancing blow, more torn open than a through shot. Shouldn't be fatal. Why wasn't he breathing?

I started CPR, hesitated for a stupid moment before pressing my lips to his and breathing for him. It took three rounds of compressions before he sputtered up what seemed like half the pool. I rolled him over on to his good side and wished I had something dry to press against the bullet wound and stop the bleeding. My hand just wasn't cutting it. I think I could have kissed that first paramedic when he walked in, which was a very strange reaction to have, but seeing him meant John would be safe. That was all that mattered.

"Mr. Holmes, DI Lestrade said we'd most likely find you here. What happened?"

"He's been shot. John's been shot. I just got him breathing again. Please..."

They had John on a stretcher less than half a minute later, but I couldn't bring myself to let go of his hand. It wasn't until we actually reached the hospital and they wheeled him back into the surgery that I let it slip from my grasp. I stood there, lost and properly in shock, before turning around and facing Mycroft.

"Brother, what have you done to the poor man?"

My legs gave out from under me, and before I passed out completely, I heard Mycroft's parting blow.

"My, my. What has he done to you?"

**********

John was in the hospital for just over a week. I had been cleared to go home the very next day, but I stayed in John's room instead. Anthea showed up each morning with a fresh set of clothes. John didn't argue much the first two days- mainly because he was unconscious. The third day he was just genuinely happy that we were both alive and Moriarty was dead. The fourth day, I couldn't take it any more.

"What on earth were you thinking, John?"

"What?" he asked around a mouthful of what the hospital liked to consider food. 

"You had to know they'd shoot you the second you moved, even you're not that stupid. So, I'll ask again, what were you thinking?"

He chewed his food slowly before swallowing, obviously considering his next words carefully. 

"I was thinking that they were definitely going to shoot me, but that I'd at least be able to save you from the, I don't know, bomb that you were about to shoot."

I bolted up out of my chair and began to pace the room. It was ridiculous. He was ridiculous. How could someone be so fucking stupid?

"That's no reason! You could have died!"

"We both would definitely have died if I had just sat there. One of us making it out alright seemed like a better deal than no one."

"John-."

"If you're going to keep arguing with me about this, I'm going to have you escorted out of the hospital."

"You wouldn't dare."

"Try me."

"I'd be back in here within an hour."

"Why does it matter so much? We're both alive, aren't we?"

"You almost weren't! That's the point. I almost lost you, John, and I'm not quite sure what I would have done if that had happened. Don't you understand that?"

He was wearing a look that clearly said that no, he didn't. I fisted my hand into my hair, tugging at my curls, searching for the words that I thought would make him understand. Why was this so difficult?

"Sherlock, please sit down."

If he hadn't used that tone, the soft one that he uses when it's been far too long since I last ate and that it would be a favor to him if I would just choke down a piece of toast so he could sleep without worrying about me, the tone that made it sound like my actions would make his day infinitely better, I might have been able to argue. Instead, I fell back into my chair. 

"Sherlock, we're alive. I know what I did was stupid, reckless, but this entire-" there was a moment of hesitation here that confused me, "-friendship is reckless and stupid and dangerous and that's why I'm still here. So stop all this blame shit. It's over. I'm alive. You're alive. Moriarty's dead. Let's move on, shall we?"

I nodded. I could file this away, all this anger and hatred that wasn't even really about John, store it in a box and chuck it into the room that I use to keep all my unwanted things, lock it up and hide the key. I could do that. 

"Besides, I'm not quite sure what I would have done if I'd lost you either, Sherlock. I wasn't too keen on finding out. Surely, you understand that much?"

I didn't, but I knew if I opened my mouth to ask why someone like him could find anything worth missing in someone like me, the answers would only hurt me. There weren't any good reasons. I knew that much. I didn't need him to confirm it for me.

So instead, I got out of my chair and moved to the window, curling up on the sill with my knees pulled up to my chest and looking out at London. It was better than trying to decipher the strange look on John's face. 

Eventually, a nurse came back in to check on him, administer another dose of pain medication, and John was soon asleep. 

I moved back to the chair.

It was easier to make sure he was still breathing from there.

**********

Those nights in the hospital were hell, but not nearly as bad as the first week back in the flat. John was not one who liked being helpless and I was terrible at taking care of other people. I had to reach for the mugs because he couldn't stretch that way without tugging on the stitches and making a pained groan fall from his lips. The first time I heard it, I nearly dropped my violin. John looked sheepish throughout my lecture and protested against me banishing him to the living room while I made tea. I told him that if he set foot in the kitchen again, I would run experiments on the fancy jam that he got from the farmer's market and enjoyed more than anything else with his toast. 

Since he grumbled his way out of the kitchen and into his chair, I decided that instead of experiments, I would spread some onto the toast I decided to make to go along with his tea. It was almost time for another round of pain medication and he should eat something with it. 

That night, I made it to his side seconds after the first scream ripped through the flat. He hadn't had a night terror that badly since the first week he lived at Baker Street with me. It took me a full minute to wake him, another minute to get him to stop hyperventilating, one more to get him to recognize that it was really me and that I was definitely not dead. 

"Sherlock," he choked out.

Then I had my arms full of Doctor John H. Watson, a sheen of cold sweat on his skin, his breath shuddering into the hollow of my neck, arms wrapped around me, clearly in a position that was hurting him. 

"John, you're going to rip your stitches if you keep sitting this way."

"I need to know you're still here."

The why of the situation didn't matter in quite the way it usually did. Usually, I'd scoff at the sentiment or vaguely question why it was necessary. This time, I just ran through different scenarios that would allow me to be close to him and for him to not be hurting because of it. 

"Alright. Let go for just a minute. I have an idea."

He let go quite reluctantly. I pulled off my robe, slipped out of my slippers, and moved to the other side of his bed before climbing in next to him. I sat on top of the blankets with my back against the headboard. I pulled a pillow from behind him and set it on my lap. 

"Come here."

He hesitated before resting his head on the pillow. It took him a few minutes, but eventually he relaxed enough to get properly comfortable. His arm wrapped around my waist, his leg looped over mine, both holding me in place. I tentatively touched his head and, when he leaned into the gesture, began to run my fingers through the sandy grey-blond. I found myself wondering if it was the same color of the sand that his boots trudged over in Afghanistan. I sat there the entire night. 

I should have been bored. 

(I shouldn't have been there in the first place, if I was honest with myself, but that was an easy enough thought to delete. John wanted me there. That's all that mattered. It didn't matter that the way he mumbled my name as he succumbed to his REM cycle made something in the vicinity of my stomach flutter. Stomach problems too? On top of the heart condition? Maybe it was something serious.) 

I should have been bored, but instead, I was fascinated. It wasn't often that I had the pleasure of seeing John sleep. There were times that he would fall asleep in his chair after a long day at the clinic, his tea half finished on the table next to him, the book he was reading slowly falling out of his hand, but they didn't compare to this perfect, deep sleep I was able to witness. I found myself deleting the room I had dedicated to cigarette ash (the information was on my website, anyway) in order to create a new space where I could store all the information on John Watson that I currently had stashed haphazardly around the palace. His sleeping habits filled an entire bookshelf. 

I found myself worrying that a single room might not be enough space to contain him.

**********

Things were better when John was technically able to make tea for himself again. Not that I let him, of course, but it was nice not worrying about him accidentally hurting himself while he did things like get dressed or shower or little things like that. Things that I couldn't help him with even if I had wanted to.

(Which I did, but I didn't let myself think about that because it was for reasons that were not solely in the context of helping out a friend who was injured after they took a bullet for me.)

The entire time, he never asked me for a thing. He mainly got aggravated at me for doing things for him, which I didn't understand. It was painfully obvious that I didn't understand the situation or his reasons for being hostile when my body brushed up against his as I reached from behind him to get the box of pasta from the top shelf that he was hoping to make for dinner that night. Instead of trying to move away from the invasion of personal space, he leaned into it, leaned into me. 

Apparently, he hadn't meant to do this. One minute, I could swear I felt his hips sway against mine. The next, he was soldier stiff, stalking out of the kitchen muttering things about personal space and how he wasn't an invalid but that I was, most certainly, an idiot. 

I stood there for a full minute before I realized that what he had done was most certainly not the normal reaction to someone crowding your personal space. It was a reaction that people usually had when someone they were intimate with or wanted to be intimate with was close to them. 

Wanted to be intimate with.

I couldn't process that information.

I stretched out on the couch, holding my fingers under my chin, staring blankly at the ceiling. I stepped into my mind palace, walked through the corridor I had dedicated to social niceties and the fundamentals of social interaction. There was a room there, specifically for romantic ventures. It was a room I only entered into when a case required me to examine the relationships of those involved.

I stood in the context of that room and analyzed John.

That night at Angelo's. The moments after cases were solved, breathless, adrenaline fueled. The heat that passed through his eyes when he looked at me, only to be shuttered a moment later. The wanting-to-say-something-but-not-saying-it. The stares that lasted just a few seconds past socially acceptable. The failed dates.

Holding Moriarty as a bargaining chip to give me an escape route. Willing to die with me to kill Moriarty. Getting shot tackling me into a pool to avoid the bomb blast. Dreams of me dying even though it was him who was shot. 

Holding me while he slept through the entire night. Saying my name in his sleep in a voice that was definitely not panicked. That movement in the kitchen.

_Oh._

Well, this certainly changed matters. 

I analyzed my own actions. The growing desire to have him around when I had never wanted anyone around ever. The way he made my thoughts stop sometimes, resulting in beautiful moments of quiet. The way I played my violin for him when I never played it for anyone else since I had gotten out of grade school. Those nights I had to give in to the needs of my body and couldn't picture anything but the way John would look spread out on my sheets. The way I got offended when he was so quick to tell people we were not a couple. The jealousy when he took women out to nice restaurants even though I hated eating. How he made me toast and knew just the way I liked my tea and that I would only eat when I knew it was upsetting him that I wasn't. The way I cared about whether or not he was upset. 

The fear that almost paralyzed me when I first saw him wearing the Semtex vest. The way I could only breathe again when it was on the ground. The way I wanted to hug him. Wanting to hug someone in general. The panic, the foundation crumbling panic, when I saw him dying in the pool. Fainting. Staying at the hospital even though I hated hospitals. 

The way his smile made my chest hurt. The chest hurting in general. The stomach-fluttering-condition.

Heartstrings and butterflies. 

_Oh._

I was off the couch and taking the stairs up to his room two at a time. The door was still open, and I walked in without an invitation. 

He was sitting on the edge of his bed, head cradled in his hands. 

"John-."

"Before you say anything, let me apologize. I'm not sure what came over me down there. Blame it on blood loss or pain medication or my sheer fucking stupidity. It was uncalled for, and I'll never do it again. If that's not good enough, I'll leave. I can find another flat. That won't be too much of a problem. I could be gone by the end of the week."

The ice that seemed to steel over my entire body made me realize that John leaving was never, ever going to be a possibility. 

"Your blood loss has been completely recuperated by this point, you're only taking paracetamol, you are not stupid, and if you ever leave, I will hunt you down, drag you back here, and make sure the ability to leave is something that you lose."

"What?"

"You know I hate to repeat myself."

"I- I don't-."

I replaced the hands that had dropped from his head with my own and leaned down, almost bending myself in half, to kiss him. For several long seconds, I was sure that I had made a mistake. The facts, my analysis, my data- something must have been wrong. 

Then his hands were gripping at my waist, my shirt, my neck, pulling me closer. His lips were parted and suddenly I tasted a part of John that I was certain would always be off limits. When breath was necessary, only then, did I pull away. His hands were still fisted in my shirt, holding me close. 

"You crazy, insane, psychotic, amazing, disastrous man. What do you think you're doing?"

"Kissing you, I believe."

"Yes, right, that. Why? You're supposed to be married to your work-."

"At this point, I think kissing you trumps any case that Scotland Yard could hand me."

I almost couldn't believe it when the words came out of my mouth, but they were true. There was so much to explore here, right in front of me, that I couldn't care less about the details of the crime scene. It had been two weeks since we had a case, and taking care of John had fended off the boredom for the most part. This... this adventure was something that I knew would keep me occupied for days, weeks, years. 

Forever. 

_**Oh.** _

But he was kissing me again and my thoughts did that beautiful shutting off thing that they liked to do around John and, "Oh, God."

I wasn't even embarrassed about the sound that followed up that prayer. 

It did take me a moment to realize that he was using those clever hands, ones that stitched up wounds and shot cabbies, to undo the buttons on my shirt and that I had somehow gone from bending in half to being on my knees. His lips were on my cheek, my neck, my collar bone, back up again only with teeth. That sound happened again and I was vaguely alarmed that my body was acting of its own volition. 

Then John tugged the shirt off my shoulders (when had he managed to undo the cuffs?) and let his hands roam over the now bare skin of my back. I realized that I wanted- needed- to feel his skin as well. I pulled at the hem of his t-shirt, let him pull away just long enough for me to pull it over his head, before I was staring at the not-quite-healed gash in his side. 

"I- I forgot for a moment. Perhaps... perhaps this isn't the right time..."

"If you stop now, I swear to God I will never let you leave this flat again. I will tell Lestrade to stop giving you cases. I will invite Mycroft over for tea. Don't you dare stop kissing-."

How could I fight against threats like that? Before he was finished, I was kissing him again. He pulled me up, maneuvered us so that we were both on the bed. It was my turn to taste and explore. I followed the same path his kisses had taken, down his neck and over his collar bones. I kissed across his chest, noting every scar, every indentation, wishing I had time to count every single hair, before my mouth encountered the scar that brought him to me. I kissed it reverently, tracing the web with my tongue. I cataloged every noise that came from his mouth, mostly soft sighs and half formed curses. I wanted to taste them, take the sounds into myself and keep them there forever. I figured kissing him might make that possible. After all, I had John Watson coming undone beneath me. Anything was possible.

He managed to flip us over, the endorphins clearly masking his ability to feel pain quite as severely as he should. When his hands found my belt at the same moment that his teeth found my nipple, I thanked science for the amazing chemical processes that went on in the human brain because it was allowing my doctor to do some amazing things. 

My doctor. I found myself surprised at how unsurprised I was by my own possessiveness.

I made a disappointed sound when he stopped kissing me, but that was quickly replaced by another one of those noises I wasn't entirely comfortable making. His mouth was hot and wet and the suction he managed... 

I tossed my head back into the pillows, clenched my fist in the sheets, and told myself not to buck into his throat because that was probably poor etiquette. I didn't want to come this way. I didn't want it to end so soon. I needed to have better control of myself. I managed to flip us over after a few seconds of kissing John and tasting myself on his lips that distracted me quite a lot. Once he was under me, I gave him the same treatment. I kissed him everywhere, telling myself that kissing around the wound in his side would be a bad idea and instead I should focus on undoing his belt and getting him just as naked as I was.

Then, for one brilliant moment, I realized that I finally had my fantasy. John Watson. Here. Naked. Spread out before me. His skin flushed, his prick hard and almost throbbing. 

I was pretty sure the entire flat could be made out of Semtex and I wouldn't give a damn.

I kiss him again, this time in a way that could probably be considered violent. It's more teeth than tongue and he's making noises that are more along what I had imagined and I want to be the only one who makes him make those noises for the rest of his life. 

I tell him as much and his hips buck up against mine making his prick rub against mine and it's a rather delightful friction that has us both groaning and repeating the motion. 

"There's condoms... in the drawer there..."

"We're both clean, why-?"

"Because there's also lubricant in that drawer and I would rather like it if you fucked me right about now and that's something I would prefer you to wear a condom if only for the sake of me not wanting to shower tonight."

I couldn't argue with his logic (an entirely new experience), so I fumbled in the drawer to his bedside table and managed to grab the lubricant and a condom. It had been so long since I'd done this and even then, I was strung up on cocaine and barely remembered most of it. What if I hurt him? What do I do? Why didn't I have a room dedicated to the handling of a naked John Watson?

"Relax, Sherlock. It's... been a while, for me, so just start slow. Use your hands. If you'd rather not, I could do it myself or we could skip the actual fucking for tonight and do something a little less insane."

I filed away 'watching him finger himself in preparation of me fucking him' as something to see later.

"Whenever has 'a little less insane' ever worked for us?" I asked and undid the lid to the lubricant. It was cold on my fingers, so while I waiting for it to warm up, I began a slower exploration with my mouth. By the time I reached his cock, he was panting and the lube was warm enough that I was able to bring my fingers up and into him without the discomfort of the cold. He was so tight, so very tight, that I found myself being gentler than I had imagined possible. It took minutes before he was open enough for me to not hurt him, at least 10 before he was begging me to take him. I would have to carve out another room in my palace for the noises he makes. Perhaps I should make an addition?

"God damn it, Sherlock, please."

Despite my lube slicked fingers, I managed to get the condom open and on and then I was sinking into John, sinking slowly, allowing us both time to adjust to this new sensation. I moved slowly, rocking my hips more than I was actually thrusting. John's legs wrapped around my waist, his hips moved in time with mine. We found a rhythm that picked up pace. Harder. Faster. Deeper. I wrapped a hand around his prick when I realized I was getting close to orgasm. I needed to see him first. I needed to know that I could make him. 

When he came, my name was on his lips. It will be forever etched in my mind. I have painted an entire wall with the sound waves. 

I followed a second later, shattering everything only to have it rebuild itself stronger and more beautiful than I had ever imagined it could be.

I didn't move for a very, very long time.

**********

Yes, when Mycroft showed up after that first night, after John had shot the cabbie, I should have known I was in trouble. When he appeared the morning after that first night I spent with John as my... partner? lover? Whatever. When he appeared that next morning, I knew I was definitely in trouble.

"Well, well, what do we have here? Has my dear brother found domestic bliss once and for all?"

"Piss off."

"Looks like the good doctor is really... rubbing off on you. Even your mannerisms have changed. What do you have to say for yourself?"

"What is there to say?"

"You know what I've taught you, what I've always taught you. You're going to hurt him. There is nothing good that could possibly come from this. Love is a defect-."

"Found in the losing side. Yes, I know what you've always said."

"Then how are you still stupid enough to fall for it? Norepinephrine, dopamine, endorphins, oxytocin... It's chemistry. I took you to be rather adept at chemistry. How is it that you cannot, after all this time, control your own?"

"I find myself not quite caring."

"So you're willing to risk everything. You're willing to throw it all away for a shag and a cup of tea in the morning."

John chose that moment to come downstairs. Mycroft planted him with a look that would have killed him if he were anything less than spectacular. 

"I see I'm interrupting. Something about you trying to convince Sherlock that we're never going to work and that he should leave me before he gets in to deep, yeah?"

"See? Even your doctor understands."

"Oh, no, I didn't say that at all. I was just making sure that I was calling you a fucking idiot for the right reasons."

I don't think I had ever seen my brother shocked before then. It was truly enlightening.

"I beg your pardon?"

"You are a fucking idiot, and I would very much like it if you left our flat."

Laughter, completely inappropriate laughter, threatened to choke me.

"If you think that I'm going to sit idly by while you toy with my brother, while you detract from the calm that he's finally built up, you will find that you are sorely mistaken."

"Calm? Where the hell have you been that you think he's calm? And in case you hadn't noticed, I saved your brother from getting himself blown to high heaven by a legitimate psychopath. If you think I'm a bad influence here because I make him feel something, you need to check your priorities."

"My priorities consist of keeping my brother safe. You have served your purpose. Now it's time for him to grow up, act his age, and get over this little... game he is playing with you. He was brilliant before you came along and dulled all that. He was brilliant and he knew it. Now, you are making him revert to what he once was, a no good, emotional, irrational, pathetic-."

He didn't get further than that before John's fist collided with his jaw, knocking Mycroft mentally and physically off balance. 

"Sherlock may be a lot of things. He's a disaster, a brilliant, mad, insane disaster, but he's my disaster. Don't you dare say another bad word about him because I swear, if the next thing that comes out of your mouth isn't an apology, I will put your boys at MI6 to shame by showing you how real hand to hand combat works and I think you'll find that there is rather a lot more to me than meets the eye."

Mycroft's mouth worked for a moment without any sound coming out of it before he closed it with a snap.

"I... seem to have misjudged you, Doctor Watson. Perhaps you aren't as bad of an influence as I thought you would be." He turned to face me. There was something that looked like the start of approval in his eyes. "I will leave you alone in this, then. I won't interfere. Good day."

He was gone, then, and the laugh that I had been holding in all but exploded out of me. 

"John, I think that was one of the most amazing things anyone has ever done for me."

"Really? Because I have literally killed someone for you, and took a bullet for you to boot."

"You just punched the British Government in the face. That's... brilliant."

He looked at me. I imagined how I must appear to him- my hair still a disaster from the previous night, face red from laughing, a real smile. Whatever he saw there had him echoing my grin.

"I suppose I did. At least it wasn't actually the queen."

"Are you sure about that?"


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